Booting problemsForum: Other Help Topics Topic: Booting problems started by: PDG1 Posted by PDG1 on April 20 2007,23:15
I'm really new to Linux and I have little to no clue as to mounting and how it's importantbut DSL isn't mounting ramdisk and it's causing problems and headaches I'm not sure why it would do this I've got Cyrix 6x86MX 200Mhz 16MB RAM 4 Gb HDD and at the moment I'm running Windows 98 second edition when i got the machine it was running ME but like lots of people... I just couldn't stand it ummm the errors I'm getting are something like... modprobe can't find fb0IOerror 104 0 requests 0 known processed 0 events remaining and... can't find ramdisk in etc/fstab or etc/mtab Posted by chaostic on April 21 2007,00:33
The first error looks like modprobe can't find the module for a floppy drive. If you don't need the floppy don't worry about it.Don't know what to say about the second. Posted by lucky13 on April 21 2007,01:35
Mounting is the process by which an operating system associates other file systems or partitions with its root partition.Are you using the lowram label when you try to boot the CD? (You can try that from the splash screen when DSL first starts up or the cheatcode page if you hit f2.) Posted by curaga on April 21 2007,09:25
Many weird errors start with low ram. The solution I used is to boot with "debug" so it drops to a shell once in a while during boot. Then I could enable swap in stage 2 shell, so boot could work...
Posted by PDG1 on April 21 2007,09:51
okay... the lowram cheatcode gives me the same errorsI don't need a floppy (thankfully) which is good because the windows 98 that's already installed is doing weird things with the floppy for example.. I "appearantly have a B drive... it's a 5 1/2 inch... don't ask me where I got it... Windows must know:P curaga... if you're not careful... you could end up on that list of "crazy people who wont go away" lol... but yea... I know the dsl 2 option works kinda I'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around this it tells me that it couldn't find ramdisk anywhere (in one of 2 places) but yet I can access the folder structure fine X windows has a big probelm tho... no matter how hard I try, I can't get past xauth so if I had to bet money on something I had no bloody clue about... I'd say it'd be that it's a problem with the filesystem not mounting correctly or somethin' like that but everything seems fine when i go dir and cd to other places I'm sure there's probably one magic fix all cheatcode that I'm missing and it's really stupid stimple and I'm going to kick myself for not noticing it... and of course harrassing the forum about something i could have fixed if my head wasn't up my arse... you know... I'm partially thinking about giving up on Linux for this machine and buying something a bit easier to work with I'm not looking for speed... what i really wanted was to be able to install Xlink Kai. 98 can't do it... but Linux can DSL is the one I've had the most experience with therefore... I chose it over something else plus it's small and easily extendable Posted by curaga on April 21 2007,10:31
Heh.... I would be honored to get there.. But there are people before me in the line (hats, juanito...)All those problems come from low ram, I'm sure about that. Try booting with this line: "debug 1 nopcmcia nousb nofirewire idecd vga=normal mem=16M nosound nomce noscsi noapm noagp noacpi" It drops you to stage 1 limited shell, just press enter. In stage 2 shell
Jay! You've now created a swap file without repartitioning. Just press enter a few times until you get to root console. If you type "free" you see you now got 16m of ram, and 64m of swap! Feel free to install frugal (or wipe 98 and do a hd-install) now.... Hope this helps Posted by PDG1 on April 22 2007,00:33
whoa... that looks like it just might workif this works I think I'm going to be very happy... I'm so sick of Windows on all my machines I'll give it a try |